Proposed Match with Mme, Sun's Sister By Grotos E, Soxotsxy view of the many rumours and tales which have gone the rounds in Shanghai concerning the movements of General Chiang Kai-shek, called on General Chiang and requested him to authorize a state ment of i and plas "My presen: visit to Shanghai has no "political significance. I -have come to this city on purely private Dusiness, to arrange, if possible, for
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marriage with Miss Soong May-Miss Soong May-ling is the popular sister of Mme. Sun Yat-sen, Mr. T. V, Soong,. former Minister of Finance and Mrs, H H. Kung, wife of the former, Minister of Industries of the Nationalist Government, She is a genduate of Welles-in the United States and lent in Shanghai society. "It would be advisable, General Chiang," 1 said, "to explain to the public through the medium of our newspaper, exactly what your relationships are, for although such 'a matter is strictly your own affair, your prominence and Miss Soong's connections, have given rise to many accounts, which if untrue, ought to be corrected.
General Chiang Kai-shek replied:
"Daring the 10th moon of the! 10th year of the Republic (1921) 1 was duly divorced, in accordance with Chinese customs, from my first wife, who is now living at Fenhua. Here is document of divorce which has been registered with the proper Judicial authorities at Fenbua. According to it, we were diver incompatibility. All the details are in this document.
"Since that divorce, my life has been away from Fenhua, mostly in the battlefield of the revolutionary Five years ago in Canton, at the home of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, I met Miss Soong. - I felt that in her T would find the companionship which a man seeks in a wife. Mies Soong, at that time, however, was not interested, Since then I have been corresponding with her constantly, pressing my stir. Recently, oar romance culminated in her agreeing to a marriage subject to the consent of her family, which we now hope to obtain. We shall be married in Shanghai, in the event of the usual Chinese family arrangements being satisfactorily made and then we shall spend a year in travel abroad.
T then asked General Chiang about the lady who is travelling in America, "Foreigners perhaps do not understand all the intricacies of the Chinese family system, "'he said. "That Indy has been divorced in accordance
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